Hi Matthias, sounds like exactly what I need. Unfortunately, QFieldSync depends on qgis2compat which in turn wants to use the QtTest PyQt module which apparently I do not have. Ah, my default PyQt4 was compiled and installed without QtTest, will just need to reinstall. Perhaps of interest that not all systems come with QtTest by default.
I looked at https://github.com/opengisch/qfieldsync a bit, perhaps I can extract the relevant parts. Thanks, I would never have discovered this by myself, -Andreas On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Matthias Kuhn <matth...@opengis.ch> wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > You can use the QFieldSync plugin which comes with a processing algorithm > that renders a styled map within a given extent to a raster dataset. > > Matthias > > On 5/31/17 6:29 PM, Andreas Plesch wrote: > > Responding to myself, I found this processing script in the script > repository: > > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Processing/blob/master/scripts/ > Create_rasters_from_canvas_for_each_vector_layer_feature_extent.py > > It does almost what I had in mind. Its presence indicates that indeed some > Python scripting is necessary. > > I may give it a try. Unlike above, I would probably try to avoid using the > composer and just go for the straight maprenderer as in the map rendering > cookbook example: http://docs.qgis.org/2.18/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_ > cookbook/composer.html#simple-rendering > > I wonder if it will be necessary to clone the mapcanvas maprendercontext > to preserve current settings ? > > The main idea is to use the rasterized, styled vector layer as a > georeferenced image outside of QGis. > > -Andreas > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Andreas Plesch < > andreasple...@netscape.net> wrote: > >> I feel I am missing a basic function somewhere to "burn" (in gdal terms) >> a vector layer as styled by QGIS, for example with labels, to a raster >> layer (of some resolution). >> >> The Rasterize (vector to raster) function is based on gdal_rasterize and >> does not take into account styling as it focuses on preserving the actual >> data. >> >> The work around I am currently using is to use Project-Save as Image >> while displaying only the styled vector layer which will generate a correct >> world file helper, then loading the generated image as raster layer and >> assigning the correct projection. Finally, I clip the raster with the >> original extent of the vector layer. >> >> This works but is limited as the resolution is constrained by the >> physical size of the map window and requires the additional house keeping >> steps. >> >> qgis2web or QTiles or OGR2Tiles as plugins do something like this >> internally but I could not find a plugin which just generates a regular >> raster layer (say geotiff). >> >> I also know I could probably produce a short Python script (perhaps as >> processing script) to do this but still think I am missing something ? >> >> Any help or hint much welcome, >> >> Andreas >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing listqgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > >
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